The Most Nutritious Chocolate Cake on the Planet

Practically everybody loves a chocolate cake – but with all that butter, flour and sugar comes the guilt! This cake is not only made WITHOUT the butter, flour and sugar, but is made with ingredients that are positively dripping with amazing nutrients! Oh…. and by the way – its dead easy to make too!

Ingredients

Crust

2 cups walnuts blended

15 large dates

1 tbsp hazelnut butter

1 tbsp raw cacao

Cake ‘batter’

1 x 14oz can cooked rinsed black beans

3 tbsp pomegranate molasses

4 tbsp almond milk

1 tbsp hazelnut butter

1 tsp vanilla extract

1/2 tsp salt

3 tbsp raw cacao `

1 cup walnuts

fresh berries for decoration

Method

Blend walnuts until crumbs. Blend dates. Add dates, walnuts, 1 tbsp hazlenut butter and raw cacao together and using your hands mix the ingredients and form a sticky (ish) ball.

Roll out the ‘ball’ and line a springform cake tin to form the ‘base crust’ of the cake. Make the crust about 1 cm thick.

Process all the other ingredients together in a blender until smooth

Spoon the blended ingredients onto the crust.

Place in freezer and chill for 4 hours

Decorate with some fresh berries. You could also toss on some crumbed walnuts or coconut flakes to make it look real pretty!

Allow cake to thaw out for about 30 minutes before eating!

How quick and easy is that? You seriously have to give this a go – nutritious, tasty and easy to make? – whats not to love?

Claire is an award winning food writer, chef and has appeared on numerous tv shows as a food expert. She has studied nutritional health extensively and focuses all her recipes on healthy nutritional eating. As a mother, she realises how hard it can be keeping a healthy diet and juggling a family’s wants which is why all her healthy recipes are designed to be family friendly.